Tack button



April 1 4, 1931. TE 1,800,768

TACK BUTTON Filed Nov. 3, 1950 Fi .2.. a Fi .6.

Patented Apr. 14, 1931 STATES PTEN? FFEE FRANKLIK R. WHITE, OF 'WATERBURY, CGNNEGTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT BUT- TON COMPANY, OF 'WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CGRPORATION OF CONNECTICUT TACK BUTTON Application filed. November 3, 1930.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in buttons, and more particularly to a one-piece metal button, in which there is to be driven a prong or fastener, which prong or fastener during the attaching will be mutilated to thus hold the button to the cloth to which it is to be attached.

The present application is somewhat similar to the type of button shown in my Patent No. 1,538,015, issued May 19, 1925. In that instance, however, a metal anvil box-like in cross section was used and it was necessary to crimp the bottom walls of the button head beneath this box-like anvil.

Still another object of the invention is to produce a button made preferably from an aluminum slug or wire, which'button may be provided with an ornamental hard metal cap, if desired.

Still another object of the invention is to produce a button of one piece in which there may be pressed or driven a small metal disk, so that when the tack or fastener is driven into the hub for attaching the button, there will be no danger of the tack passing through the body of the button head or into the metal S till another object of the invention is to produce a button preferably made from an aluminum slug, which button will have a hollow hub and in which hub will be fitted either a little flat disk or a little cup-shaped disk, and the hub then swedged sothat when the button is fed from an attaching machine,

3 the tack or fastener may be driven up into the hub, and the tack striking the hard metal disk will be deformed or mutilated to thus ll up the hub and securely hold the button in position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain new and novel arrangements and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Referring now to the drawings.

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view of an aluminum wire which will be cut into slugs, as shown by the dotted lines;

Fig. 2 shows the button head after being subjected to afirst set of dies;

Serial No. 493,137.

Fig. 3 shows the button head after being subjected to a second operation;

Fig. 4 is a similar view with the button inverted and a small metal disk dropped within the hub;

Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the button showing the hub now pressed or swedgecl to its final shape and the little metal disk driven down to its final position;

Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view of the button;

7 is a sectional view showing the button as attached to the material desired;

Fig. 8 is a sectional View showing a slightly modified form of button with the cap shown directly above the same;

Fig. 9 is a similar view and showing the cap in its first crimped position on the button head;

Fig. 10 is a section view after the button has been subjected to a still further set of c ies;

Fig. 11 shows the inverted position of the button and with the little cup-shaped disk dropped within the hub;

Fig. 12 is a similar sectional view, the button having been subjected to a further set of dies to swedge the hub and to force the little cup-shaped disk to its final position;

Fig. 13 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings and to Figs. 1 to 7 in particular, there is fragmentarily shown an aluminum wire 1, which may be cut into slugs, as shown by the dotted lines 2. The slug is then subjected to dies (not shown) and will be so pressed that a button head will be formed having the body portion 3 and the hollow hub 4. This button head is then subjected to a further pressing, so that the head 3 is now much thinner and has the relatively flat rim 5, which now forms the body portion of the button, and the hub is now elongated, as may be readily seen in this figure. After the button head has been brought to the shape shown in Figs. 3 and 4, a small metal disk 6 is placed within the hollow hub 4 and this may be done in a machine (not shown), which will drop the disks into the hubs of the buttons, the buttons themselves being carried by a revolving plate or in any other desired manner. 1

The button head is'then subjected to a further die (not shown) so that the hub 4: is now bent inwardly or depressed, as at 7, and the little metal disk;6 will have been struck by a plunger, so th'at it willassume a curved position in the hub, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. The button head, in the present instanceyas' shown in Fig. .6, may be scalloped, as at 8, 'or irregular in design, although it will be understood that the out,- line of the button head maybe of any desired configuration.

Although I have not shown the button as having any insigniapressed therein, it will be readily apparentthat this comes within the scope of the invention.

I Nowto secure this button to the cloth, it.

will be fed from an ordinary attachingmachine: (not shown) and the prong 9 of a tack 1O will-be driven up into the swedged hub and .will be deformed or mutilated and assumes the position shown at 11 to thus fill opening'of the hub and will tightly hold up the hub and themetal of the deformed tack being greater than the now restricted the button'to' the cloth. I 1

Referring now toF1gs-. 8 to 13 inclusive,

where a-sli'ghtly modified form-is shown, it

willbe noticedthat a slug is employed and.

subjected todies, so that the button head 12 willifirs't be in the shape shown anda cap 18 will be fitted thereon. After being subjected portion, a metal. cap crimped on said body portion, 1 the *head provided with a hollow to dies; (not shown), the cap will be criinped on the button head and the button will now appear, as shown in Fig. 9.

' ;The unfinished button .is .then subjected to-another set of dies and a slight indenta tion 14 may be formed in theunder surface of; the button head, while the cap and'the "ii desirejdinsignia thereon.

body of the button will be flattened out, as may-be clearly seen in Fig.10. I

After the button has reached this form, it

willbe inverted and, if desired, placed in a machine (not shown), sothata little cup- Shaped-disk 15 may-be placed within thehub 16an'd after which the-button willbe subject'- ed to still further dies to taper the hub, as

shown at 17, and form a restricted opening 18 therefor. Also, the-little cup-shaped disk 15.

will be driven down to its final resting place, as may be clearly'seen in Fig. 12. It might bementioned that the cap 13 may have any The button is attachedin thesame manner as the preferred form, that is,-the tack'will be driven up through the restricted opening of the hub, will be mutilated against the little anvil or cup-shaped disk 15 to thus fill up the hub; and,.of:course, the tack willbe held from withdrawal"onfaccount of-the re stricted opening. of 1 the hub.

f It'will'be noticed: hatthebuttoir is one ofextreme? simplicity and that. the hub is made in but one piece. At the same time, a little fiat disk or a little cup-shaped disk made of scrap metal will be fitted within the hub and then driven into position, so that it will not be possible for the tack to pierce the body of thebutton head, which might mutilate the outer surface, even if the same were provided. with the metal cap. From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have'produced an extremelyv simple button that may be rigidly and tightly secured to a garment and wherein there is no possibility of the prong or tack fastener mutilating the buttonwhile, at the same time, the assembly of the button is extremely simple and the cost-of the same,therefore, relatively low. r Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A tack button comprising a solid metal body, having a hollow hub and a restricted opening therefor, a metal disk within the hub and resting against the top-wall of the hub adapted to turn the prong of a tack fastener. r r r 2. 'A tackbutton comprising asolid head and ahollow hub, the'hub having a' restricted opening and a cup-shaped metal disk within the hub contacting with the rear wallof the hubian'd adapted'to turn the prong-ofa tack fastener to thereby hold the button to the material to whichit is to be attached;

3. A tack button comprising-a solid body jammed within the hub against the rear wall thereof and adapted todeform a tack fastener, and a cap ,crimped about the body Portion of the button.

5 A solid metal tack button having a 1101-.

low hub and a portion ofthe hub being tapered, the hub provided with a dome-shaped chamberand a restricted opening, a metal disk conforming in shape to the dome of the hub and contacting with the rear wall there-{ of, and the chamber adapted to receive and mutilate the end of a tack to "thereby secure the button to the article to which it is to be attached. w r

In testimony whereof 'Iafiix my signature FRANKLIN R. WHITE.

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